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Plot Summary:
After learning that his grandfather is alive and living in Seoul, a North Korean musician must leave his fiancee behind and accompany his family to South Korea.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
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Superwelt (2015)
Plot Summary:
SUPERWORLD is a story about God and the world: a world whose heroine WORKS the till and a God we never see nor hear, but whose presence we feel throughout the film. Lead actress Ulrike Beimpold delivers a remarkable, moving performance as a woman under divine influence, a woman in crisis who sends shock waves through her whole family. While director Karl Markovics consistently works in a realistic mode, his narrative approach is often operatic, with elaborate bird’s eye shots and strikingly composed images of biblical proportions that make God’s presence manifest. Until, that is, the twilight of the gods descends and the heavens come crashing down on the plot. All good things come from above, after all. SUPERWORLD is like a small miracle. A super good one.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 120 min
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Adagio sostenuto (2008)
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The film tells the love story between Anna and José, while at the same time approaches the intersections of urban violence and artistic creation, nature and civilization, war and peace, life and death, abandon and union, showing that in the end of our path we are still coping with mystery, emptiness and transcendence.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, meta
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Red Family (2013)
Plot Summary:
A growing friendship with their neighbors softens the resolve of a group of North Korean spies who are posing as an ordinary South Korean family.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min
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Vesna Goes Fast (1996)
Plot Summary:
Vesna, a Czech girl, arrives in Italy without money and, because of poverty, is forced into prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 92 min
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What the Sun Has Seen (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three strangers living in Silesia - a 12-year-old half-orphan, a musically talented girl and a middle-aged unemployed ex-miner - are all desperate to get money to make their small dreams come true.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Just Be There (1973)
Plot Summary:
Mitchell, a Vietnam veteran, returns home to Minneapolis with his girlfriend Kathy and intends to write a novel about his war experiences, but is pushed by his overbearing father into a job selling pork bellies at a commodities firm. Quickly promoted to vice president for his work during the day, while writing the novel at night, proves too much for Mitchell; fearing that he has "sold out," he takes off on his motorcycle to "get his head together" early '70s-style. Somehow, schlockmeister Jack H. Harris (producer of THE BLOB) took this film and re-released it as something sexy called SWINGING TEACHER.
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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Slaughter of the Cock (1996)
Plot Summary:
Greece's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1997.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Bulgaria, Syria, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 155 min
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Different Eye (2017)
Plot Summary:
Julia and her fiancé Mark's world is shattered when they find themselves with conservator-ship of Maria, a young woman with Downs Syndrome. Can Maria teach Julia to find the beauty in life's ups and downs, or will Julia and Mark's crumbling relationship cause them to send Maria away for good?.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
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Promises (2010)
Plot Summary:
Self made millionaire Rolando Dominguez (Carlos Guerrero) could not resist the tempting pleasures that came with his success and now finds himself homeless, demented, and tormented by flashbacks of his regretful mistakes and broken promises to his missing son Rollie (Carlos Guerrero Jr.). Rolando struggles with his guilt as he faces the harsh reality that the fortune he worked for in his pursuit of happiness is the very thing that has destroyed his life... Meanwhile Detective Stevens (Steven Bauer - Scarface, Ray Donovan) has vowed to bring Rollie back home to his desperate mother Vanessa (Carmen Lopez) who’s six month agony has led her to question her faith while clinging on to the last bit of hope to see her son again.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, captivating, independent film, contemplative
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The Taebaek Mountains (1994)
Plot Summary:
The film originates from the great river story Taebaegsanmaek consisting of 10 volumes and is written by Cho Jeongrae. The story tries to describe and reveal a few generations-lasting conflicts between the haves (proprietors) and have-nots (peasants), which develop into right wings and left wings respectively. While revealing why and how the conflicts come about, the story depicts every corner of real life -- romantic, shamanic, and Confucian aspects of the contemporaries.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 168 min
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The Dupes (1972)
Plot Summary:
Set in Iraq (but shot in Syria), this is the story of three men who try to leave their impoverished and hopeless lives to get work in Kuwait. They hire a water-truck driver to transport them illegally across the border in the tank of his truck.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Drama
Country: Syria
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Swing Kids (2018)
Plot Summary:
Rebellious Ki-soo from North Korea is mesmerized by tap dance in prison camps. Ki-soo joins as a team member of a dance team named ‘Swing Kids’. Yet suddenly, their dreams about dancing in prison camps are put in danger.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, intense, funny, cult film
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Emily & Tim (2015)
Plot Summary:
The movie is comprised of six vignettes. A look at the tumultuous marriage of Tim and Emily Hanratty over half a century.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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Cold Summer (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Wall - Berlin '61.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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Bonobo (2014)
Plot Summary:
A happily married young couple must carefully evaluate their relationship and trust in one another, plus own moral standing when a potentially seedy yet highly financial offer is presented to them in a time of recession.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
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Night and Day (2008)
Plot Summary:
Kim Seong-nam travels to Paris to escape an arrest, leaving his wife behind in Korea. After he arrives, he meets an ex-girlfriend and is introduced to a small community of Korean artists.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, touching, captivating
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The Gin Game (2003)
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This powerfully bittersweet comedy follows the relationship that develops between nursing home residents Fonsia (Mary Tyler Moore) and Weller (Dick Van Dyke) during a series of gin games in which their ailments, misfortunes and losses are exposed in funny, honest and increasingly heated moments.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Madambi (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a village named Ilavattam there lives a man by the name of Gopalakrishna Pillai. He is a man with diverse qualities. Basically he is a moneylender, but not the avaricious kind. He lends money at very low interest-rates but makes it a point to get his money back on the date agreed upon. The story takes a turn when a bank, named Grand Bank opens up in the village, offering to give out loans at very low interest. The manager of the bank is a young lady named Jayalakshmi. She has made her entry into the village with a very definite purpose. All this, plus the very different kind of bonding between Gopalakrishna Pillai and his mother, form the plot, which develops towards a very interesting climax.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
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Babai (2015)
Plot Summary:
10-year-old Nori is obliged to grow up at a very young age after the early death of his mother and then being abandoned by his father Gezim in the Kosovo of the 1990s.After a dangerous and eventful journey, Nori finally arrives in Germany and is reunited with his father, but he cannot understand how Gezim could just have left him. And chances of them being able to stay in Germany look bleak when Gezim’s application for asylum is rejected.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Kosovo, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, art house
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One Last Deal (2018)
Plot Summary:
Olavi, an aged and shabby art dealer, is planning to retire. Accidentally he finds an old painting that he suspects being much more valuable than his colleagues have priced it. He decides to try to prove for the last time for himself, his colleagues and his estranged family that he can make it.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min
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One Summer Night (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the winter of 2013, Yong-jun and Jae-sung, a member of the Korean People’s Army, are caught having sex by a superior. After that, Yong-jun decides to defect from North Korea to the South leaving Jae-sung behind. Yong-jun risks his life to step on the land of freedom and meets Tae-kyu. Two years after, Jae-sung comes over to the South, and Yong-jun must decide between Jae-sung and Tae-kyu. This causes misunderstandings and puts them in pain.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min
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The Shadow Box (1980)
Plot Summary:
Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death. Adapted for television from the award-winning play by Michael Cristofer.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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Green Fish (1997)
Plot Summary:
Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: crime drama, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Net (2016)
Plot Summary:
A poor North Korean fisherman finds himself an accidental defector, and is groomed to be a spy by an ambitious South Korean military officer.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, thought provoking, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Confidential Assignment (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a crime organization from North Korea crosses borders and enters South Korean soil, a South Korean detective must cooperate with a North Korean detective to investigate their whereabouts.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, disturbing, intense, semi serious, detective
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Vortex (2019)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around a "surprise" kidnapping case. Liu Xiaojun (Dapeng), the owner of the car dealership, was involved in a kidnapping case for the accident of reselling a black car. He was surrounded by the kidnapped little girl Kiki (Ulanto Yaduo), the dereliant brother Xia Xi (Ou Hao) Several seemingly irrelevant people, such as Xia Tao (Sha Baoliang), dancers (Li Meng ), and second-hand car dealers (Cao Bingyu), have also fallen into the abyss of eternal annihilation.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 103 min
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The Baby Carriage (1963)
Plot Summary:
A tale of young woman, Britt, who has two flings, but finds herself with difficult decisions when she finds herself pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Love+Sling (2018)
Plot Summary:
A former wrestler bonds with his son over the sport. But then the son's girlfriend falls in love with the father.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: light, captivating
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Paradise (2004)
Plot Summary:
Televangelist Bobby Paradise "saw God" in some space debris when he was returning to Earth as an astronaut. Or at least he was convinced he did by his wife, a Cape Canaveral groupie at the time Bobby was with NASA. Now they have built up an extensive TV empire. When their proposal to merge with a somewhat tarnished mogul is investigated by the government, skeletons in the Paradise closet come to light and the family either rallies behind or disparages the enterprise.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, crying, soap opera
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Dance Town (2010)
Plot Summary:
A North Korean refugee, Jung-Nim, is trying to find a new life in South Korea, with people suspecting that she is a spy.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, touching, sincere, thought provoking, bleak, contemplative, gloomy